The Art and Science of Valuing Vintage (Insight & Analysis) Falling under the spell of a beautiful dress, a gorgeous pair of shoes or a well-crafted handbag is no strange feeling for followers of fashion. Falling in love with a piece that was first worn 30 years ago and has been waiting, it seems, just for you to discover it, is all the more rare. The Creative Class | Natalie Joos (The Creative Class) “Casting agents are

Nasty Gal’s Sophia Amoruso: Fashion’s New Phenom (Forbes) “In four years her spunky retail fashion site has streaked across the Web, pushing new ways to sell trendy but inexpensive clothing. The company is on its way to quadrupling sales this year to $128 million, racking up gross margins of more than 60%, up there with retail’s most profitable ventures.” Get Ready for Action (NY Times) “With a sneaker

LONDON, United Kingdom — It wasn’t so long ago that many technology analysts made bold predictions on the potential of so-called ‘F-commerce,’ the practice of using Facebook as a direct sales channel. Some even speculated that transactions conducted on Facebook, the world’s most visited website, could threaten e-commerce giant Amazon. But, thus far, selling directly on Facebook has failed to take off. Indeed, in the

Céline: Dressing for a Balanced Life (IHT) “Three exceptional designers took masculine tailoring as a base for a new female elegance that owes nothing to frills and furbelows. On Sunday, as Phoebe Philo stood, heavily pregnant, to greet a hand-picked audience for what was not more than a Céline showroom collection put on models, it was hard not to think of her as the leading protagonist for this new woman.” Neiman